Sustainability Lab Publications
IIT Gandhinagar
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Total Publications: 41
2025
Space to Policy: Scalable Brick Kiln Detection and Automatic Compliance Monitoring with Geospatial Data
Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Mondal, Rishabh and Dubey, Shataxi and Jaiswal, Suraj and Guttikunda, Sarath and Batra, Nipun
Venue: ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS)
URL: Link
2024
VayuBuddy: an LLM-Powered Chatbot to Democratize Air Quality Insights
Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Bachwana, Yash and Sharma, Nitish and Guttikunda, Sarath and Batra, Nipun
URL: Link
SpiroActive: Active Learning for Efficient Data Acquisition for Spirometry
Authors: Jain, Ankita Kumari and Sharma, Nitish and Kanda, Madhav and Batra, Nipun
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22950
URL: Link
JoulesEye: Energy Expenditure Estimation and Respiration Sensing from Thermal Imagery While Exercising
Authors: Adhikary, Rishiraj and Sadeh, Maite and Batra, Nipun and Goel, Mayank
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
DOI: 10.1145/3654888
Benchmarking Active Learning for NILM
Authors: Patel, Dhruv and Jain, Ankita Kumari and Khandor, Haikoo and Choudhary, Xhitij and Batra, Nipun
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15805
URL: Link
2023
SpiroMask: measuring Lung function using consumer-grade masks
Authors: Adhikary, Rishiraj and Lodhavia, Dhruvi and Francis, Chris and Patil, Rohit and Srivastava, Tanmay and Khanna, Prerna and Batra, Nipun and Breda, Joseph and Peplinski, Jacob and Patel, Shwetak
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
DOI: 10.1145/3570167
AIRDELHI: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Particulate Matter Dataset From Delhi For ML based Modeling
Authors: Chauhan, Sachin and Patel, Zeel B and Ranu, Sayan and Sen, Rijurekha and Batra, Nipun
Venue: Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track
URL: Link
2022
Vastr-GAN: Versatile Apparel Synthesised from Text using a Robust Generative Adversarial Network
Authors: Shastri, Hetvi and Lodhavia, Dhruvi and Purohit, Palak and Kaoshik, Ronak and Batra, Nipun
Venue: CODS-COMAD ’22 : 5th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD)
Samachar: Print News Media on Air Pollution in India
Authors: Patel, Karm and Adhikary, Rishiraj and Patel, Zeel B and Batra, Nipun and Guttikunda, Sarath
Venue: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (COMPASS ’22)
Accurate and Scalable Gaussian Processes for Fine-grained Air Quality Inference
Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Purohit, Palak and Patel, Harsh and Sahni, Shivam and Batra, Nipun
Venue: Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)
“I do not know”: Quantifying Uncertainty in Neural Network Based Approaches for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
Authors: Bansal, Vibhuti and Khoiwal, Rohit and Shastri, Hetvi and Khandor, Haikoo and Batra, Nipun
Venue: The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022)
2021
Vartalaap: what drives #airquality discussions: politics, pollution or pseudo-science?
Authors: Adhikary, Rishiraj and Patel, Zeel B and Srivastava, Tanmay and Batra, Nipun and Singh, Mayank and Bhatia, Udit and Guttikunda, Sarath
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Neural Network Approaches and Dataset Parser for NILM Toolkit
Authors: Shastri, Hetvi and Batra, Nipun
Venue: 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys)
2020
PlantDoc: A Dataset for Visual Plant Disease Detection
Authors: Singh, Davinder and Jain, Naman and Jain, Pranjali and Kayal, Pratik and Kumawat, Sudhakar and Batra, Nipun
Venue: ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2020)
Exploring Bayesian Optimization
Authors: Agnihotri, Apoorv and Batra, Nipun
Venue: Distill Journal
URL: Link
EdgeNILM: towards NILM on edge devices
Authors: Kukunuri, Rithwik and Aglawe, Anup and Chauhan, Jainish and Bhagtani, Kratika and Patil, Rohan and Walia, Sumit and Batra, Nipun
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
Active Learning: A Visual Tour
Authors: Patel, Zeel B and Batra, Nipun
Venue: 3rd Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI’20)
2019
Towards reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Kukunuri, Rithwik and Pandey, Ayush and Malakar, Raktim and Kumar, Rajat and Krystalakos, Odysseas and Zhong, Mingjun and Meira, Paulo and Parson, Oliver
Venue: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)
Demo Abstract: A demonstration of reproducible state-of-the-art energy disaggregation using NILMTK
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Kukunuri, Rithwik and Pandey, Ayush and Malakar, Raktim and Kumar, Rajat and Krystalakos, Odysseas and Zhong, Mingjun and Meira, Paulo and Parson, Oliver
Venue: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’19)
Active Collaborative Sensing for Energy Breakdown
Authors: Jia, Yiling and Batra, Nipun and Wang, Hongning and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’2019)
A Tree-Structured Neural Network Model for Household Energy Breakdown
Authors: Jia, Yiling and Batra, Nipun and Wang, Hongning and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’19)
2018
Transferring Decomposed Tensors for Scalable Energy Breakdown across Regions
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Jia, Yiling and Wang, Hongning and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: AAAI 2018, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18)
Rimor: Towards Identifying Anomalous Appliances in Buildings
Authors: Rashid, Haroon and Batra, Nipun and Singh, Pushpendra
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments (Buildsys 18)
DOI: 10.1145/3276774.3276797
2017
Systems and Analytical Techniques Towards Practical Energy Breakdown for Homes
Authors: Batra, Nipun
Venue: University of Virginia
Matrix Factorisation for Scalable Energy Breakdown
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Wang, Hongning and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: AAAI 2017, Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17)
2016
Gemello: Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: KDD 2016, 22nd ACM SIGKDD conference on knowledge discovery and data mining
DOI: 10.1145/2939672.2939735
Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation Through Actionable Feedback
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: 3rd International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
2015
Non Intrusive Load Monitoring: Systems, Metrics and Use Cases
Authors: Batra, Nipun
Venue: Doctoral Colloqium of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2015)
If You Measure It, Can You Improve It? Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Whitehouse, Kamin
Venue: 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2015)
Dataport and NILMTK: A Building Data Set Designed for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
Authors: Parson, Oliver and Fisher, Grant and Hersey, April and Batra, Nipun and Kelly, Jack and Singh, Amarjeet and Knottenbelt, William and Rogers, Alex
Venue: 1st International Symposium on Signal Processing Applications in Smart Buildings at 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
2014
NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Kelly, Jack and Parson, Oliver and Dutta, Haimonti and Knottenbelt, William and Rogers, Alex and Singh, Amarjeet and Srivastava, Mani
Venue: 5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy)
NILMTK v0. 2: A Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit for Large Scale Data Sets
Authors: Kelly, Jack and Batra, Nipun and Parson, Oliver and Dutta, Haimonti and Knottenbelt, William and Rogers, Alex and Singh, Amarjeet and Srivastava, Mani
Venue: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)
Data Driven Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Singh, Amarjeet and Singh, Pushpendra and Dutta, Haimonti and Sarangan, Venkatesh and Srivastava, Mani
Bits and Watts: Improving energy disaggregation performance using power line communication modems
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Gulati, Manoj and Jain, Puneet and Whitehouse, Kamin and Singh, Amarjeet
Venue: First ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (Buildsys 2014)
A comparison of non-intrusive load monitoring methods for commercial and residential buildings
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Parson, Oliver and Berges, Mario and Singh, Amarjeet and Rogers, Alex
2013
It’s Different: Insights into home energy consumption in India
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Gulati, Manoj and Singh, Amarjeet and Srivastava, Mani
Venue: 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (Buildsys 2013)
INDiC: Improved Non-Intrusive load monitoring using load Division and Calibration
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Dutta, Haimonti and Singh, Amarjeet
Venue: The 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’13)
Experiences with Occupancy Based Building Management Systems
Authors: Batra, Nipun and Arjunan, Pandarasamy and Singh, Amarjeet and Singh, Pushpendra
Venue: 2013 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP ’13)
2012
SensorAct: A Privacy and Security Aware Federated Middleware for Building Management
Authors: Arjunan, Pandarasamy and Batra, Nipun and Choi, Haksoo and Singh, Amarjeet and Singh, Pushpendra and Srivastava, Mani
Venue: BuildSys ’12: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
DOI: 10.1145/2422531.2422547